| Show f r Departs on Annual Trip to Far North Canadian Ship Faces Peril I of Drifting Ice Vancouver The The The twenty second twenty annual arctic cruise of ot the sons son's Lay company got under way with the d rr from this port recently of the S S Capt n B D L L Johnson It It 1 N It IL com corn commanding manding ma 1 Eighteen times Vancouver has hns welcomed the Arctic ships back Three did not return Two Two were caught In the summer Ice pack that tremendous area of ot floating floes that slowly rotates In tidal and air currents around Point Bar Bar- Barrow Barrow ar I andI row heading In the fall north nn and 1 west to join the pack that Is an r Shored ored for all time line near the Ule North p Ie The third ship was kept In Inthe inthe Inthe the western arctic by her owners to distribute supplies from Crom lIer Her ier- ier schel Island to extreme eastern trading posts Many Narrow Escapes These arctic adventures com com- commenced commenced In 1913 with the Ruby a wooden woollen schooner with an auxiliary plant of HO horsepower The pi pl pioneer voyage was arranged by A A Bassett fur Cur trade Inspector for Cor the company The master was an ex- ex experienced experIenced ex experienced northern whaler and trader Then as ns now v ships bound around narrow Barrow had to adjust their sailing to a period 1 In summer when balmy southern winds loosened the polar field from Crom Its winter grip an and shoved the he Ice pack out from Crom the theland land leaving Ice dotted lanes of open water to to the wider seas north of Canada More than once a company ship has bas slipped through the lie narrowing channel between the pack and the theland land and seen the lie Ice lock lok with the shore right under the lie stern of the speedIng esse vessel First to be caught In the Ice was the 1914 WU vessel the lie commanded by a fa- fa fa famous moos Indian trader trailer and Bering sea sen sealer Captain Buckholtz Ice bound Ice Ice- Icebound Icebound bound off orr the Alaskan coast she wintered there and ne next t year was ras sent to Island remaining tn in the arctic for more than ten years rears before beCore being relieved The Lady trapped by bythe bythe bythe the In 1024 1924 10 4 wrote a stir stir- stirring stirring ring chapter of history of or conquest of the arctic Commanded by Capt Gus who died three months ago she had mn made two suc suc- successful successful o voyages ases but on August G 0 WJ W J was caught just south of PoInt B crow For the lie rest of the month the tube master and crew fought to free freo the ship while the wInd blew the almost opposite the mouth of the Mackenzie river then west and north toward the SI- SI Si berian coast const With axes dynamite and steam the crew managed to keep the vessel In a n small lake but bul despite gradually their efforts the frost grad closed In Abandon Ship Ill fated Rescue ships Including the ill III fated hovered helpless on the edge of the pack Finally Captain gave th lit order to abandon the ship with Its million dollar car cargo o of furs The crew started across the which was badly broken They had al- al almost al almost most given g up hope of reaching the rescue ships when Eskimos with sledges and a skin boat hont reached them and transported them to safety safe safe- safety safety I ty The rhe Lady rally KIndersley I has lias nev nev- never never er since been definitely r reported ported nl- nl although al although though there here have been rumors that she finally was looted by Siberian natives off ocr the river riser The succeeded the Lady Kindersley until l 1 1031 1931 when outbound from the arctic she was badly crushed rushed by the south of Point Harrow Barrow Captain Cornwall made camp ashore and practically nil all the cargo lIe He re- re remained re- re remained re remained until the ship disappeared Then another chapter of arctic history was written by Amer Amer- American Ivan ican air men who saved the crew and the whole of the cargo The thereafter became a ghost ship Again As-aln and again she appeared Once an nn Eskimo party reached her but had great difficulty getting back For the last year she has not been reported Her IIer ter mate mateR R It J Summer Is chief officer of the tho which carries many of or her crew |
